Native Baháʼí Council of North America In 1980 an estimated 1,000 Native American members of the religion and their guests gathered for the second American Baháʼí Native Council at a powwow along with Hand of the Cause Dhikru'llah Khadem and Amoz Gibson, with long contact with Indian populations and then a member of the Universal House of Justice. The event was sponsored by the Baháʼí Continental Indigenous Council, which was composed of three Indigenous believers from each of the national assemblies of North America. After the council meeting, a three-day training and deepening program developed plans and teams of Baháʼís to travel to different regions to promulgate the religion among the Native Americans. These teams of Indigenous Baháʼís from Canada, Alaska, and the 48 contiguous United States represented ten tribes under the name Trail of Light. One team visited six Native villages in Alaska from July 18 to August 1. Team members were Tina Salomon, an Osage/Cherokee from Sparks, Nevada; Mary Jane Tevuk, an Iñupiaq from Nome, Alaska; Regina Steffes, a Navajo/Oneida from Fontana, California; and team captain Chester Kahn, a Diné from Houck, Arizona (later a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States); Bill Ekomiak, an Inuk from Daysland, Alberta, Canada; Johan Lyberth, an Inuk from Nuuk, Greenland. A second team visited Indian Reserves and cities in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada, included Henry Bainbridge, a Navajo from Teec Nos Pos, Arizona; Ernestine Moore, a Northern Paiute/Washoe from Reno, Nevada; Maynard Eakan, an Iñupiaq from Anchorage, Alaska, and member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Alaska; Shirley Lindstrom, a Tlingit from Mayo, Yukon, Canada; team captain Noni Nelson, a Métis from Enderby, British Columbia, Canada; Peter Singyke, an Iñupiaq from Anchorage, Alaska; Rita Blumenstein, an Unangax/Athabascan/Yup'ik from Palmer, Alaska; Dennis Bainbridge, age 9, a Navajo from Teec-Nos-Pos, Arizona. One of the teams split in two and traveled from the north to the south starting mid-June and traveled among the people in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama. While in Panama they gathered with more than 1,000 Guaymi Baháʼís joined by Costa Rican Guaymi, Talamanca, and Teribe representatives and they agreed on founding a Native Council for the Panamanian and Costa Rican tribes. The Trail of Light team then continued through Bolivia, Chile, Peru and finally Ecuador. In Ecuador the team was presented to the audience at a conference in May 1982 dedicated to the anniversary of